Editorial

Letter from a Young Newsroom 

Dear readers, Six months is not a lifetime. It is barely a season and a half. It lacks the symmetry of a year or the gravitas of an anniversary cast in bronze. And yet, in the life of a publication, particularly one built on borrowed time, student resolve, and a […]

Anti-Intellectualism Is Bad for LU, and India

“Today’s backlash against intellectual life cannot simply be written off as a popular celebration of mindlessness,” wrote Adam Waters and E.J. Dionne Jr. in Dissent. It was true of America in 2019. It is painfully true of India now. Books written in other countries, in other decades, often feel eerily […]

How we learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

They tell you, politely, that the world is what it is: messy, dangerous, and therefore to be managed by people who have seen the maps and read the books. Questioning the necessity of weapons that can erase cities, nuclear weapons, the all-consuming instruments of modern statecraft, will earn you a […]